MWeb may have to retrench 109 employees after its acquisition of Tiscali South Africa three months ago, it was reported on Wednesday. The company’s chief executive, Kim Reid, said "certain duplications and/or redundancies" have been determined after MWeb evaluated the effects of acquiring Tiscali and combining the two businesses.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair faced a closed-door meeting with his restive Labour Party on Wednesday during his first real confrontation with lawmakers who have called for him to resign after Labour’s majority was slashed in last week’s election.
Jesus Christ is having trouble convincing United States courts to let him keep his name. It’s not the Messiah who is facing this problem, of course, but an American business-owner who, about 15 years ago, adopted the name of the Christian God’s son. The man, born Peter Robert Phillips Jnr, started his legal battle in 2003.
A tiny Canadian shrub is the quickest-moving thing in the plant world, using a catapult mechanism to eject its pollen at a speed hundreds of times faster than a launched rocket, scientists have found. The plant, bunchberry dogwood, grows in thick carpets in the vast swampy, spruce-fir forests of the North American taiga.
For more than a century, teams of donkeys have carried tourists down the beach at Blackpool, one of Britain’s top tourist destinations. But only now are they to get a compulsory lunch break. A wide-ranging "employment rights" charter for donkeys was announced on Wednesday.
In an unusual first for the art world, a London auction house announced on Wednesday it will sell a series of abstract paintings by a chimpanzee, Congo, once feted as the "Cezanne of the ape world". Congo became famous in the late 1950s when his swirling works were exhibited in London.
A recent newspaper advert exhorting the owners of farmland in Namibia to provide their details to the government, or face a stiff fine, imprisonment or both, has brought a flood of responses. The advert named the owners of about 1 000 farms who have not provided the ministry of land and resettlement with their contact details.
Locust experts have concluded that West Africa will experience a relatively mild invasion of the crop-eating insects during the coming rainy season, and 90% of the money needed to finance control measures is already available, a senior official of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation said on Tuesday.
The South African online publishing industry has grown its readership by about 25% to attract a monthly combined local and overseas readership of 4,38-million readers or unique browsers and 111,6-million page impressions, the Online Publishers Association said this week.
The body of the last missing miner was found at Carletonville’s Driefontein mine on Wednesday afternoon, bringing the death toll since Tuesday to five. The five were among 10 miners trapped almost 2km underground after seismic activity at the mine’s Number 2 shaft on Tuesday morning.